..after the shark bit his board in-half ! :eek3:

SYDNEY - An Australian surfer survived a great white shark attack by repeatedly punching the four-meter (13-foot) creature as it mauled his arms and legs, witnesses said.

Jake Heron, 40, was surfing off South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula on Sunday, an area renowned for sharks, when he was attacked as his two children watched in horror from the beach.

“No one saw the shark come up to him. It knocked him off the board. It pulled him under because the leg rope was attached to him,” fellow surfer Craig Materna told reporters.

“He kicked and punched the shark, I think in the gill.”

The shark bit through Heron’s wetsuit on the right arm and thigh and also chomped his surfboard, splitting it in two.

“We look up and see this surfboard just pop out of the wave and just this big, massive shark just swam off,” Jasmine Buckland, who was on the beach at Fishery Bay, said Monday.

“Then the shark went at him twice, at his leg, and then his arm, and the board was just bitten in half,” she told radio.

Heron, a fisherman by trade, is recovering in hospital after receiving 20 stitches in his arm and 40 stitches in his thigh.

Link HERE (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9210382/) matey

I would have been too busy having a heart attack to fend the shark off! How lucky is he!?

punching the shark is what experts say we should do in a similar situation, its amazing he survived!

The shark had it coming...

In the nose, right?

Actually, not the nose- Mythbusters had this one recently and their conclusions showes that the eye and gill region was most effictive. Softer, you do more damage. Nose is apparetly very tough cartilege.

I've done a fair bit of diving in Australia.
One place, Julian rocks, has had two great white attacks but its so beautiful that you can't let that get in your way!
On the whole, I felt safe even when we were several kilometers from shore, diving from a boat: you just remember the odds are in your favor, and then you enjoy the abundant marine life around you that doesn't have huge serrated teeth :)

That said, South Australian waters FEEL sharky. You look at them: grey under leaden skies, and you remember all the Great White attacks... Brrr...

The coolest shark encounter I had was inadvertantly sneaking up on a 2 meter grey nurse shark. I swam through a little swim-through cave at Julian Rocks - to a rock that sits at its upper exit. I was tripping, pretending to be 007 in one of those movies where he scuba dives - so I was being really stealthy, staying low to the bottom of the cave, as if there was an enemy on the other side of the rock I was approaching. When I got to the rock, I peeked over it, and the Grey Nurse was about four or five meters away, just cruising past :) I was so excited! They are beautiful creatures.

M.

Actually, not the nose- Mythbusters had this one recently and their conclusions showes that the eye and gill region was most effictive. Softer, you do more damage. Nose is apparetly very tough cartilege.

Good to know.

I'm wearing brass knuckles the next time I go surfing
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Surfing in Grassvalley :bowrofl:

So material girl like have you seen this mega-huge shiney thiingy called a truck ?? oh my gawwwd only a total dweeb would like say something like "surfing in grass valley" Helloooooo !!! ... its bitchin cuz you can like put stuff in it and stuff and like go places ! ;)

I'm wearing brass knuckles the next time I go surfing
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LOL, but this guy was just plain lucky , so I'd use the brass nuckles on myself so at least I wouldn't be eaten alive while conscince.

Java man, move to the coast and save yourself all that gas money and two hour drive everytime you want to surf.

LOL, but this guy was just plain lucky , so I'd use the brass nuckles on myself so at least I wouldn't be eaten alive while conscince.
:rofl: Exactly!

I'm wearing brass knuckles the next time I go surfing
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For sharks or for little punk-ass kids who drop in on your wave?